run this amazing day

I'm pretty thrashed right now from racing my balls off and then driving all the way home.  The short version is, I PR'd every distance for a monster 70.3 PR. Longer recap to come...

1. So, I let the taper crazies get the best of me just a little.  It was one of my September goals to actually pay someone to cut and color my hair for the first time possibly since I got married (2010).  I made an appointment for last night and took a couple of just-pulled-out-the-hairtie before shots... A shot after the first chop but before the color to text around in fear. But even I was a little startled by the after (please ignore the huge bags under my eyes, it was after 10pm by the time I got home). It was one of those "oh, a little shorter is okay...sure, a little shorter...as long as it can fit in a ponytail...whoops..." situations. And I have no idea how to deal with it in triathlon.  This morning I was able to squeeze into two pipsqueak pigtails and with a few bobby pins and a visor, manage a run, but that's a lot of time to waste in T2.  If I do that before the swim, it's definitely not going to stay put until I get off the bike. Taper cra...

So, I'm racing this weekend.  You probably didn't know that because I haven't mentioned it fifty times in the past three hours. I'm taking the fourth crack at racing 70.3 miles, and I'm hoping that this will be the time that I finally can release my demons of this distance into the past.  Looking back at my first three attempts, I've walked the back five miles of the run after coming back from injury way too quickly, I've crashed my bike and I've puked for an entire half marathon .  Worse than what the clock has said, I've had two pretty rough and unhappy days as an athlete through these miles, and that is the history that I would really like to just wash away. I think that a lot of my mental problems stemmed from a significant amount of pressure I was putting on myself , and I've done everything I can to let the pressure just simmer down this round.  For one, I will be racing this distance twice this fall, which means that while I do have...

Checking in with July goals: August Diligently follow whatever crazy regimen of medicine is handed down from the breathing doctor.  Do not neglect the nasal spray just because it’s weird and gross.   I have been a picture of nasal spray perfection. It’s time to do some more cooking experiments.   Lots of these this month, with sweet potato burritos a new favorite in our house. Do not get sucked into end-of-summer swimsuit sales.   Not a single swimsuit was purchased! Do not become addicted to expensive running shorts.   This is only going mediumly well. Spend more time with the 3D people in your life and less time worrying about the 2D people that live inside the laptop.   I am a work-in-progress. Do not buy any more nutrition until the cabinet is EMPTY.   I bought more powder, but only after the other powder was gone, and nothing else!  We're still working through the pile of freebie EFS liquid shots. Life is returning to normal. ...